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Tax privileges in old regime France

Exemptions from taxes held by the nobility, clergy and others.

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  1. Cambridge International AS Level History: Modern Europe, 1750-1921 Coursebook, Chapter 1, France, 1774-1814 (excerpt), Cambridge University Press. Scholarship & press
    A hungry, highly taxed lower class who were not represented by politicians, in both town and countryside, was an important factor in the events that followed.
  2. Estates-General (glossary), Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (CUNY). Scholarship & press
    the Third Estate would always be outvoted by the two privileged orders that paid few taxes.
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